[Verginius Rufus]

I think he may exaggerate how low the crime rate was earlier. Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, written in the 1940s, depicts urban crime as a major problem and something South African whites were already obsessed with. I believe Paton's widow left South Africa because of the crime problem (post-majority rule).

[nopardons]

The crime rate, in 1940, was almost nonexistant and was EXAGGERATED, in " CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY ". The police force, of that time, unlike today, had criminals cowerring in their shoes. There were NO child rapes, in the 1940s, in South Africa. Today, it is the world's capital of infant rape.BTW, about 99.9 % of those, who rape children, get away with it. This is predominantly a black crime ; black men raping black infants and children.